Date: August 10th, 2018 4:28 PM Author: Blue Useless Den
First Amazon took down the servers that hosted http://CodeIsFreeSpeech.com . Then Facebook blocked all content which included links to http://CodeIsFreeSpeech.com . Now Shopify has shut down Cody Wilson/Defense Distributed's online storefront.
Date: September 12th, 2018 3:50 PM Author: Blue Useless Den
"CEO Sundar Pichai states that the company will develop machine learning and A.I. to combat what an employee described as “misinformation” shared by “low-information voters.”
Date: October 7th, 2018 10:50 PM Author: stirring green roommate
"First, let me say that we strongly support the right of Googlers to express themselves, and much of what was in that book is fair to debate, regardless of whether a vast majority of Googlers disagree with it. However, portions of the book violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace, and we've decided to remove any reference to the book in Google Books and Search. We're also working with Amazon, other retailers, and the book's publisher to stop distribution and production of the book."
On stage Monday night, Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged the company's leaked plans to create a censored search app for China and said that it found that it could "serve well over 99 percent of queries."
Google's "Project Dragonfly," first reported by The Intercept earlier this summer, built a product that would block search results for queries that the Chinese government deemed sensitive, like "human rights" and "student protest." Pichai said on stage at Wired's 25th anniversary summit in San Francisco that the efforts were in their early stages, but that Google wanted to experiment with how a Chinese search app could work.
A human rights group that gained popularity on YouTube largely because of its videos exposing China's human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslims had several of its videos removed from the platform, with YouTube citing unrelated policy violations, according to a report.
Reuters reported that the YouTube channel Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights, which is based in Kazakhstan, also had its channel temporarily blocked by YouTube. The activist who runs the channel, Serikzhan Bilash, has been called a "well-known rights activist" by the group Human Rights Watch.
According to Reuters, 12 of Bilash's videos were removed this year by YouTube amid an apparent campaign by groups who deny China is committing genocide to mass-report the Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights videos. The channel was completely blocked this month and only restored after inquiries from Reuters.
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